Project Management Officer (PMO) - India based

AKT Global is one of the leading People Experience Digital Solution consultancies. We partner with our customers across EMEA and North America to create exceptional employee experience and build future-ready HR functions. Our People Advisory practice provides strategic guidance on HR transformation, while our Digital HR Practice provides implementation, development and support for a comprehensive SAP-centric portfolio including SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, Fieldglass and Concur.

AKT is hiring an experienced Project Management Officer (PMO), to work in alliance with Project Managers in the delivery of SAP SuccessFactors implementation projects.

Reporting to the Project Management Officer Team Lead, this role is open to candidates based in India for a full-time position. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide effective support to project managers during the project lifecycle.
• Manage project sub-activities (such as streams, sprints etc.), including team activities and deliverables and customer facing activities as required.
• Control project budget, track project cost effectiveness, raise red flags to PM as required, work in alliance with PM to execute mitigation plans, report on budget status to management providing insightful and up to date information on the status background.
• Control resources utilization and assignments ensuring sufficient and fitting resources are booked in advance and report on expected future resource plans, aligned with the resource strategy and plan defined by the PM.
• Ensure project plans are created and maintained up to date.
• Manage the project open issues via RAID log and proactively follow-up on activities, ensuring required results and deadlines are met, raising red flags as required.
• Ensure project is managed in line with AKT project management methodologies and internal procedures.
• Verify project routines are maintained and proactively coordinate required project activities with internal and external resources as required
• Lead internal weekly project meetings and present project budget health status to management as required
• Work closely with excellent cooperation and coordination with the project manager to support the project management activities.
• Stand-in for project managers with customer-facing activities when required
• From time to time, manage global spot projects end to end

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as PMO / Project Manager
• High level of English (verbal and written) – a must
• Familiarity with information systems 
• Professional presentation and communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Strong action management capability
• Experience working in global companies
• Professional ability in all Microsoft Office applications (Excel, MS-Project, Word, PPT)
• A bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or a related field – an advantage

Personal Skills:

• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and consistently meet deadlines
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to exercise sound judgment and make data-driven decisions
• Self-directed and proactive, able to operate effectively with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated strength in action tracking and follow-up management
• Proven ability to influence, motivate, and drive others toward timely action
• Results-oriented, with a strong capability to coordinate across stakeholders, ensure accountability, and remove obstacles to progress
• Demonstrates a proactive, solution-oriented mindset, maintaining a positive “can-do” attitude and identifying viable paths forward despite challenges

AKT Offers:

• A wide range of benefits and opportunities for career growth
• Flexible working hours
• Stimulating and collaborative working environment
• Internal knowledge transfer, training, and coaching
• International business environment (offices in India, Israel, North America, UK, France and Czech Republic)